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The former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and the Presidential candidate of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has formally been adopted as its presidential candidate in the 2019 election by the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP).
Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the former Governor of Osun State, who is the Chairman of the coalition, said this on Wednesday in Abuja at the opening of a meeting of the national chairmen of the parties involved.
The Chairman of the coalition recalled, that the members at the inauguration of its steering committee was saddled with the responsibility of selecting a joint presidential candidate for the coalition.
“In furtherance of this objective, therefore, the steering committee invited all political parties in the coalition to forward to us memoranda detailing their suggested ideas on how the candidate of the coalition should emerge and the criteria to use.
“The response was very impressive and rich. The steering committee, which as you all know, has every coalition party represented in it, distilled the suggestions, the aggregate of which was used to arrive at the result,” he said.He listed the criteria used in the selection process as national acceptability of candidate and party, strength of the structure of candidate and party across the country; competitiveness of the candidate’s party as against the APC candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari and financial strength of candidate and party.
CUPP comprises the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and 45 other opposition parties.
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